> Apple forces iPhone 5S and iPhone 6 owners to buy a new model even if they work fine after 6 years. Why couldn't a mobile phone work for 15years? I'm pretty

> Apple forces iPhone 5S and iPhone 6 owners to buy a new model even if they work fine after 6 years. Why couldn't a mobile phone work for 15years? I'm pretty sure Apple does no such thing. They stop updating product lines after a certain point, but they don't brick them or anything. In fact, you can find examples of people using original iPhones just to compare them to the modern phone amenities. https://www.wsj.com/video/series/joanna-stern-personal-technology/living-with-the-original-iphone-in-2017/790062D5-748C-47CE-A515-549D1C03E6F3 https://www.wsj.com/video/series/joanna-stern-personal-techn... Really -- our expectations of what our mobile devices should be able to do have increased so much in the past 10 years that it's simply unrealistic to expect them to last 15 years or longer. _Maybe_ we're coming closer to a point where we can expect tech to be usable for longer due to our phones having processors that are nearly as capable as modern laptop processors.